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About this course: In this course, you will learn how to use accounting to facilitate and align decisions made by owners, managers, and employees. You will learn how accountants create, organize, interpret, and communicate information that improves internal processes, and allows organizations to identify and leverage opportunities to create value within the supply chain and with customers. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Understand what managerial accounting is and why it is important. • Describe fundamental concepts of managerial accounting. • Apply the financial perspective of accounting for costs. • Identify problems associated with relying on financ…

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When you enroll for courses through Coursera you get to choose
for a paid plan or for a free
plan .

Free plan: No certicification and/or audit
only. You will have access to all course materials except
graded items.

Paid plan: Commit to earning
a Certificate—it's a trusted, shareable way to showcase your new
skills.

About this course: In this course, you will
learn how to use accounting to facilitate and align decisions made
by owners, managers, and employees. You will learn how accountants
create, organize, interpret, and communicate information that
improves internal processes, and allows organizations to identify
and leverage opportunities to create value within the supply chain
and with customers. Upon successful completion of this course, you
will be able to: • Understand what managerial accounting is and why
it is important. • Describe fundamental concepts of managerial
accounting. • Apply the financial perspective of accounting for
costs. • Identify problems associated with relying on financial
accounting information for internal decision making. • Organize
cost information according to the decision-making needs of the
organization. • Apply activity-based costing (ABC) and recognize
the influence of setting and decision characteristics on the
relevance of ABC systems. • Address common "what-if" questions
using cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis. • Apply CVP analysis in a
variety of scenarios. This course is part of the iMBA offered by
the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA
at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please
see the Resource page in this course and
onlinemba.illinois.edu.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a world leader in research,
teaching and public engagement, distinguished by the breadth of its
programs, broad academic excellence, and internationally renowned
faculty and alumni. Illinois serves the world by creating
knowledge, preparing students for lives of impact, and finding
solutions to critical societal needs.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Course Overview and Introduction to Managerial Accounting
In this module, you will become familiar with the course, your
instructor, your classmates, and our learning environment. Then,
you will be introduced to Managerial Accounting and Costing
Concepts.

12 videos, 8 readings, 3 practice quizzes expand

Video: Welcome and Course
Overview

Материал для самостоятельного
изучения: Syllabus

Материал для самостоятельного
изучения: About this Course: Ratings and Reviews

Organizations can organize cost information however best suits
their decisions. In this module, we introduce the role of costing
systems, identify some example systems and settings in which they
are most useful, and explore how accounting for overhead costs
influences the value of cost information.

8 videos, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes expand

Материал для самостоятельного
изучения: Module 2 Overview

Материал для самостоятельного
изучения: Module 2 Readings

Video: Learning Objectives
and Flow of Costs Through Financial Statements

Video: Two Traditional
Systems

Video: Extension - Overhead
Costs

Video: What We've Learned in
Lesson 2.1

Тренировочный тест: Lesson
2.1 Practice Quiz

Video: Learning Objectives
and Example Scenario

Video: The Manager Did
What?

Video: What We've Learned in
Lesson 2.2

Video: Module 2 Review

Тренировочный тест: Lesson
2.2 Practice Quiz

Graded: Module 2 Quiz

WEEK 3

Costing Systems II - Activity-Based Costing

Activity-based costing systems adopt a more refined view of the
organization, and can increase the accuracy of cost information. In
this module, we introduce the fundamentals of activity-based
costing systems, identify related advantages and disadvantages, and
demonstrate how such systems are implemented using an in-depth
example.

8 videos, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes expand

Материал для самостоятельного
изучения: Module 3 Overview

Материал для самостоятельного
изучения: Module 3 Readings

Video: Learning Objectives
and General Approach and Overview

Video: Fundamental
Components

Video: ABC Organization and
Steps to Implementation

Video: What We've Learned in
Lesson 3.1

Тренировочный тест: Lesson
3.1 Practice Quiz

Video: Learning Objectives
and Steps Through an Example

Video: Other
Considerations

Video: What We've Learned in
Lesson 3.2

Video: Module 3 Review

Тренировочный тест: Lesson
3.2 Practice Quiz

Graded: Module 3 Mini-ProjectGraded: Module 3 Quiz

WEEK 4

Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Analysis
Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis is the tool that managers can use
to better understand the answers to "what-if" questions in order to
make better decisions for their companies. In this module you will
explore the power of CVP analysis.